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Paladin wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:17 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 2:03 pm https://www.click2houston.com/news/loca ... in-august/

ERCOT paid Texas Bitcoin miner to not mine and paid them $30 million to not mine during heat wave.

Got my bill this month for Aug. it was 13 cents last month it was 11 cents a KWh, not sure why it bumped. My share of the $30 mil?

It’s Sept suppose to be 103 today. Hottest Summer I can remember ever.

It’s not CO2 if it’s anything other than weather it’s the Sun.

It's the hottest summer I remember as well.

Per the EPA, Water vapor has the bigger effect than CO2:

Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.

Tonga Eruption Blasted Unprecedented Amount of Water Into Stratosphere(2022)

The huge amount of water vapor hurled into the atmosphere, as detected by NASA’s Microwave Limb Sounder, could end up temporarily warming Earth’s surface.

... the Tonga eruption sent around 146 teragrams (1 teragram equals a trillion grams) of water vapor into Earth’s stratosphere – equal to 10% of the water already present in that atmospheric layer.

powerboatr wrote: ↑Thu Mar 18, 2021 12:57 pm not sure where to post this
but our electric bill arrived for the period 8 feb through 8 march
176.00

1826 kwh used
i was expecting a bit higher. our super insulation and energy plan is working

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 11:37 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:00 am https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/15/us/gridd ... index.html

Griddy files for Chapter 11.

Griddy decided a few days ago I owed them another $300. It has been two weeks since they were removed by ERCOT as my energy provider and was sent to Power provider of last resort.

They took the $50 I still had on account, but I decided to not pay the last $250. Hopefully I won’t owe it down the road. Getting anything back is looking very remote.

I’m now with someone else who charges 9.5 cents a KWh all in. That’s only a penny above Griddy for 2020 and it’s fixed.

My power provider of last resort charged me around $7 for the one day with them. That was for 55 KWh. That would have been $495 under the PUC’s emergency order.

If that is the "all in" number"(meaning the bottom line divided by KWH used), that is not to bad. My bottom line number is 10.5 cents a KWH. It drops down by 1.5 cents a KWH if I use over 1200 KWH in one billing cycle.

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 10:30 am

philip964 wrote: ↑Fri Feb 26, 2021 10:19 pm https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/02/26/ ... -customers

Griddy shut off from grid by ERCOT.

The jerks want me to pay to see the article. I can see from your comment what has happened. Does this mean you are automatically shifted to another provider?

KC5AV wrote: ↑Thu Feb 25, 2021 2:23 pm I think I read on twitter earlier today where one of our Texas congress-critters is suggesting that it might be a good idea to make those plans illegal. I’ll see if I can find it.

03Lightningrocks wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:30 pm

philip964 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 7:04 pm I was told by someone who went to the ERCOT site that Houston and Dallas had the most percentage of customers with outages.

Where as San Antonio or Austin for example had a much lower percentage of customers who went without power. So it may be Centerpoint and who ever it is in Dallas, said "hey we will take the fall for this, shut us off"

Or maybe if your trying to reduce big useage in a hurry its easier to flip a big switch than lots of small switches.

Governor is holding up bills for customers. I think a lot of small cheap electricity providers went bankrupt part way through all this (because they couldn't pass on the $9 rates to their customers or could not borrow money until their customers paid them), when they went out of business, their customers were thrown to the wolves. Their customers may not know at this point. In addition did any one read the fine print of the contracts they signed. It may be during an emergency you may not get the 12 or 15 cent electricity prices that were quoted. They may get to bump you to $9 like the Griddy customers did.

On Friday after the PUC order was removed electricity prices at about 10 am went from the artificial $9 a kwh to 2 cents a KWh because that was market at the time. Saturday I used 39.8 KWh and paid a total of 17 cents for power. Sunday I used 38.4 KWh and got paid 19 cents for using it.

The about 5 days last week cost me more than double my total yearly bill in 2020.

If I get any back, its going into a generator.

I live in Plano, just north of Dallas. My daughter is on a TXU plan and I am on Sparkenergy, out of Houston for my provider. Thank god we are both on fixed rate plans. We were both out for the majority of time on Monday and Tuesday. My son is in Pearland out near Houston and they were down two days. It makes sense that they would just kill the areas with highest number of users. Many areas out away from the suburbs had power the entire time.

I could never pay a 17K bill, even with a "payment plan", LOL... so your payment would be 500 a month for three years? They have to help these people. Yeah, they gambled some with variable rates but nobody expected it to be that kind of gamble. Maybe a nickle a KWh or something...but my gosh! Even a two thousand dollar bill would be crazy in a house.